Title: Yahoo's Mayer Has Huge Compensation Package

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/yahoo_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Yahoo's Mayer Has Huge Compensation Package' data-article-id='1057'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10271'>Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a huge pay package, although her company’s share price has slumped, reports Bloomberg News.</span> <span data-start-time='10271' data-end-time='18188'>She is the 23rd-highest paid executive of 200 on the Bloomberg Pay Index. </span> <span data-start-time='18188' data-end-time='31188'>Top executives often receive a pay, or compensation package that includes cash, with options to buy stock in their company, known as “stock options.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='31188' data-end-time='39708'>The shares of her company, Yahoo! Inc., are down more than nine percent since February 2014. </span> <span data-start-time='39708' data-end-time='46813'>But her stock options are still worth $14 million after the stock slide, according to Bloomberg. </span> <span data-start-time='46813' data-end-time='56313'>This is because the options given to her in 2014 are valued at the company’s share price 15 months earlier.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='56313' data-end-time='61521'>Stock and options are given to executives to motivate them. </span> <span data-start-time='61521' data-end-time='66938'>If the company does well, the stock and options are more valuable. </span> <span data-start-time='66938' data-end-time='71417'>Both Mayer and the other shareholders earn more.</span> <span data-start-time='71417' data-end-time='76021'>Stock options are often tied to performance goals.</span> <span data-start-time='76021' data-end-time='79979'>But Mayer’s stock option arrangement is unusual.</span> <span data-start-time='79979' data-end-time='88396'>Only one other CEO in the Bloomberg Pay Index “benefits from such a structure,” wrote Bloomberg.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/yahoo_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=4747 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/what_does_slump_mean.m4a'>What does slump mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='to decrease suddenly and by a large amount'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/better_or_like_new_again.m4a'><span>better or like new again</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/to_decrease_suddenly_and_by_a_large_amount.m4a'><span>to decrease suddenly and by a large amount</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/to_move_forward.m4a'><span>to move forward</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/payment_given_for_doing_a_job.m4a'><span>payment given for doing a job</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=4748 data-hint-location='56313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/what_is_the_purpose_of_giving_executives_stock_and_options.m4a'>What is the purpose of giving executives stock and options?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='motivation'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/scare_tactic.m4a'><span>scare tactic</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/bailout.m4a'><span>bailout</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/motivation.m4a'><span>motivation</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/punishment.m4a'><span>punishment</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=4749 data-hint-location='10271' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/mayer_is_the_23rdhighest__blank__executive_on_the_bloomberg_pay_index_.m4a'>Mayer is the 23rd-highest <span class='blank'>paid</span> executive on the Bloomberg Pay Index. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='paid'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/paid.m4a'><span>paid</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/educated.m4a'><span>educated</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/respected.m4a'><span>respected</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/debt.m4a'><span>debt</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a huge pay package, although her company’s share price has slumped, reports Bloomberg News. She is the 23rd-highest paid executive of 200 on the Bloomberg Pay Index. Top executives often receive a pay, or compensation package that includes cash, with options to buy stock in their company, known as “stock options.”

The shares of her company, Yahoo! Inc., are down more than nine percent since February 2014. But her stock options are still worth $14 million after the stock slide, according to Bloomberg. This is because the options given to her in 2014 are valued at the company’s share price 15 months earlier.

Stock and options are given to executives to motivate them. If the company does well, the stock and options are more valuable. Both Mayer and the other shareholders earn more. Stock options are often tied to performance goals. But Mayer’s stock option arrangement is unusual. Only one other CEO in the Bloomberg Pay Index “benefits from such a structure,” wrote Bloomberg.

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